The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 111 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, fear of technology, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.749 billion Second Best Puppet 111ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 111ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,151 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 170,567 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, all you have to do is pray to get into Second Best Puppet 111, student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come, and the blood, sweat, and tears of poor Second Best Puppet 111ians make research institutes rich. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 111's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 111 is ranked 9,159^th in the world and 176^th in Two for Most Corrupt Governments, with 162.93 kickbacks per hour.